Our people

Chiamaka Okafor

Chiamaka is the Centre’s Digital Assistant and promotes our work through engaging digital content across our social media channels.

Chris Chapman

Chris is our honorary treasurer, and works at Mental Health Innovations who run the ‘Shout’ text service.

Claire Hodgson

Claire is an Associate who has worked in commissioning and contracting for mental health and learning disability services for almost a decade.

David Gilbert

David is a mental health service user with 30 years’ experience of supporting organisations to undertake effective user, carer and citizen engagement.

David Woodhead PhD

David Woodhead leads our research team, with a particular interest in issues relating to racism, the criminal justice system and LGBT health

Dr Emma Tiffin

Emma has worked in mental health clinical leadership roles for over 15 years, and was recently awarded the Health Education England “East of England Leadership Award for Service Improvement and Innovation”.

Ed Davie

Ed is our Policy & Public Affairs Lead. He is is passionate about reducing health inequalities by addressing social and environmental determinants.

Frederico Cardoso

Frederico is the Centre’s Senior Economist whose main driver is to make good mental health care available and accessible to all.

Geena Saini

Geena worked as a researcher and the main statistician at the Centre for two years and is now an Assistant Psychologist at a Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Service.

Graham Durcan

Graham is a Senior Fellow at the Centre. A psychiatric nurse by training, his research work has had a particular focus on the criminal justice system.

Hannah Bevis

Hannah is our Internal Business Administrator. She provides administrative support across the organisation.

Holly Jones

Holly is our Digital & Communications Lead. She communicates the Centre’s life-changing research through our podcast, videos and newsletter.